With the "Magic Flute" in Pandemic
With the "Magic Flute" in Pandemic
Author(s): Mirela Mercean-ȚârcSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Music, Health and medicine and law, History of Art
Published by: UArtPress - Editura Universității de Arte din Tîrgu Mureş - A Marosvásárhelyi Művészeti Egyetem Kiadója
Keywords: W. A. Mozart; pandemic; Hungarian Opera from Cluj- Napoca; Tompa Gábor; contemporary staging vision;
Summary/Abstract: The paper invites to a reflection on one of the most current themes, namely, opera performance during the pandemic. One of Tompa Gábor's recent directorial performances of W. A. Mozart's Magic Flute saw the limelight in October 2020 on the stage of the Hungarian Opera in Cluj-Napoca. Interpreted in a contemporary key, the stage representation proposes a new vision on the future of a young couple in love in a chaotic, deceptive, labyrinthine world, dominated by profit, manipulation and temptations, in which the truth is relative and the value is replaced by its simulacrum. A universe of meanings adapted to the immediate reality in which, more than ever, we intuit, we even feel the strings with which the puppeteers of this world force us to play according to their own interests.
Journal: SYMBOLON
- Issue Year: XXIII/2022
- Issue No: Special
- Page Range: 25-35
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
